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Playwright and screen writer Abi Morgan reveals to Claudia the true story behind her play, The Mistress Contract.

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The Mistress Contract by Abi Morgan is on at the Royal Court until 22nd March 2014

From the private papers of Winston Churchill to the tender notes of an unknown Tommy in the trenches, Love Letters of the Great War brings together some of the most romantic correspondence ever written.

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Love Letters Of The Great War, edited by Mandy Kirkby is out now.

Claudia, Robbie and Xan听look ahead at the runners and riders for this years British Academy Film Awards.

Outstanding British Film Category

Gravity
Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom
Philomena
Rush
Saving Mr Banks
The Selfish Giant

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Director Category

Steve McQueen: 12 Years a Slave
David O鈥橰ussel: American Hustle
Paul Greengrass: Captain Phillips
Alfonso Cuaron: Gravity (Robbie and Xan's winner!)
Martin Scorcese: The Wolf of Wall St.

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Leading Actress Category

Amy Adams: American Hustle
Cate Blanchett: Blue Jasmine
Emma Thompson: Saving Mr Banks
Judi Dench: Philomena (Xan's favourite)
Sandra Bullock: Gravity

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Leading Actor Category

Bruce Dern: Nebraska (Xan's sentimental favourite)
Chiwetel Ejiofor: 12 Years a Slave (Robbie and Xan's winner!)听
Christian Bale: American Hustle
Leonardo DiCaprio: The Wolf of Wall Street (Robbie's personal favourite)
Tom Hanks: Captain Phillips

Film Category

12 Years a Slave听(Robbie and Xan's winner!)听
听American Hustle
Captain Phillips
Gravity
Philomena

You can watch the British Academy Film Awards, hosted by Stephen Fry on 麻豆社1 at 9pm on Sunday night.

Oh What A Lovely War

A brand-new production by Terry Johnson of a famous Joan Littlewood show from 1963 that counterpointed the songs of the First World War with the grim reality of the carnage.

Oh What A Lovely War runs at the Theatre Royal at London's East 15 until March 15

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Happy Days

Although it too dates from the early 1960s, Samuel Beckett's Happy Days is a very听 different cup of tea! Beckett's play is a virtual monologue showing a middle- aged woman, Winnie, buried first up to her waist and then her neck in earth. She faces her predicament, however, with extraordinary resilience.

Happy Days is at the Young Vic, London until March 8.

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It Just Stopped

Imagine if everything you rely on- your phone, your computer, your whole power system- just stopped functioning. That's the situation in this Australian play by Stephen Sewell which shows a couple of New Yorkers living in Melbourne first having a panic-attack then admitting a couple of strange visitors.

It Just Stopped is at the Orange Tree, Richmond until March 8.

The Hotel Plays

Three short plays by Tennessee Williams are being staged in a famous London hotel.

The Hotel plays are at the Langham Hotel, London until March 8.

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